2018–19 İstanbul Başakşehir F.K. season

İstanbul Başakşehir

2018–19 season
President	Göksel Gümüşdağ
Head coach	Abdullah Avcı
Stadium	Başakşehir Fatih Terim Stadium
Süper Lig	2nd
Turkish Cup	Round of 16
UEFA Europa League	Third qualifying round
Top goalscorer	League: Edin Višća (13 goals) All: Edin Višća (14 goals)
Home colours Away colours Third colours
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The 2018–19 season was İstanbul Başakşehir's fifth consecutive season in the Süper Lig and their 29th year in existence.

Season summary

Başakşehir sat at the top of the Süper Lig table for most of the season and the club looked to be on their way to clinching their first major trophy before losing out to city rivals Galatasaray following defeat to the same club in May 2020.^[1] Playmaker Edin Višća was named the Süper Lig player of the season at the end of season awards ceremony.^[2]

Squad

As of 31 January 2019^[3][4]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  TUR Volkan Babacan 3 DF  FRA Gaël Clichy 4 DF  GHA Joseph Attamah 5 MF  TUR Emre Belözoğlu (Captain) 6 DF  MDA Alexandru Epureanu 7 MF  BIH Edin Višća 8 MF  BRA Marcio Mossoró 9 FW  BIH Riad Bajić (on loan from Udinese) 10 FW  TOG Emmanuel Adebayor 11 MF  NED Eljero Elia 13 DF  RUS Fyodor Kudryashov 14 MF  TUR Arda Turan (on loan from Barcelona) 17 MF  TUR İrfan Can Kahveci

No. Pos. Nation Player 18 FW  ITA Stefano Napoleoni 19 FW  SEN Demba Ba 20 MF  TUR Soner Aydogdu 21 MF  TUR Mahmut Tekdemir 28 MF  SRB Miloš Jojić 33 DF  TUR Uğur Uçar 34 GK  TUR Mert Günok 35 DF  GER Serdar Tasci 39 DF  TUR Alparslan Erdem 55 GK  TUR Faruk Çakır 70 FW  BRA Robinho 80 DF  BRA Júnior Caiçara 88 MF  SUI Gökhan Inler

U21 players

Only professional players and/or players with first team numbers are listed. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player — GK  TUR Said Kıvanç 25 DF  TUR Emre Keskin 65 DF  TUR Yusuf Avcılar

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  TUR Kerem Aktürkoğlu — FW  TUR Serhat Akyün

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 9 FW  TUR Mehmet Batdal (at Fatih Karagümrük) 57 MF  GER Cihan Yıldız (at Erokspor) 59 MF  TUR Okan Saraçoğlu (at Ankara Adliyespor) 61 FW  TUR Oktay Bala (at Darıca Gençlerbirliği) 96 MF  TUR Altuğ Taş (at Bandırmaspor) 97 DF  TUR Enes Subaşı (at Darıca Gençlerbirliği) 98 DF  TUR Alper Karaman (at Erokspor) — DF  TUR Berk Nebioğlu (at Erokspor) — DF  TUR Mert Vurak (at Darıca Gençlerbirliği)

No. Pos. Nation Player — DF  TUR Muharrem Öner (at Erokspor) 25 MF  SEN Cheikhou Dieng (at Spartak Subotica) — MF  TUR Recep Kuşçu (at Arsinspor) — MF  TUR Cerem Dinçer (at Erokspor) — FW  TUR Barış Güral (at Erokspor) — FW  TUR Ertuğrul Köktürk (at Kozan Belediyespor) — FW  TUR Atabey Çiçek (at Adana Demirspor) — MF  TUR Tunay Torun (at Bursaspor)

Other players under contract

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 95 MF  TUR Mustafa Toprak

Competitions

Süper Lig

League table

Positions by round

The following table represents Başakşehir's positions after each round in the competition.

Matches

Turkish Cup

Fourth round

Adana Demirspor v İstanbul Başakşehir

5 December 2018	Adana Demirspor	1–1	İstanbul Başakşehir	Adana
20:30	Taşdelen 54' (pen.)		Visca 85' (pen.)	Stadium: 5 Ocak Fatih Terim

İstanbul Başakşehir v Adana Demirspor

18 December 2018	İstanbul Başakşehir	2–0	Adana Demirspor	Istanbul
19:00	Epureanu 6' Frei 33'			Stadium: Başakşehir Fatih Terim Stadium

Başakşehir won 3–1 on aggregate.

Round of 16

İstanbul Başakşehir v Hatayspor

16 January 2019	İstanbul Başakşehir	1–0	Hatayspor	Istanbul
18:30	Adebayor 32'			Stadium: Başakşehir Fatih Terim Stadium

Hatayspor v İstanbul Başakşehir

24 January 2019	Hatayspor	4–1	İstanbul Başakşehir	Antakya
13:00	Abdioğlu 12' Aydın 25' Ilgaz 43' Aydın 65'		Jojic 19'	Stadium: Antakya Atatürk Stadium

Hatayspor won 4–2 on aggregate.

Europa League

Third qualifying round

İstanbul Başakşehir v Burnley

9 August 2018 (2018-08-09)	İstanbul Başakşehir	0–0	Burnley	Istanbul, Turkey
20:00 (21:00 TRT)		Report		Stadium: Başakşehir Fatih Terim Stadium Attendance: 4,503[6] Referee: Srđan Jovanović (Serbia)

Burnley v İstanbul Başakşehir

16 August 2018 (2018-08-16)	Burnley	1–0 (a.e.t.)	İstanbul Başakşehir	Burnley, England
20:45 (19:45 BST)	Cork 97'	Report		Stadium: Turf Moor Attendance: 16,583[6] Referee: István Kovács (Romania)

Burnley won 1–0 on aggregate.

References

External links

• Official website